terraform VS terraform-provider-restapi

State Encryption was one of those long requested features[0] (I had it on my ideas list for years[1]) that Hashicorp didn't have much incentive to build. I don't think it has to with distancing opentofu as such, but the opentofu team prioritizing the right things that customers actually need.

[0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/9556

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#-mars-terraform-remote-htt...

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/34402

I’m not a lawyer and have no idea who is right or wrong but I understand why Hashicorp is scrutinizing this.

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Each app’s front end is built with Qwik and uses Tailwind for styling. The server-side is powered by Qwik City (Qwik’s official meta-framework) and runs on Node.js hosted on a shared Linode VPS. The apps also use PM2 for process management and Caddy as a reverse proxy and SSL provisioner. The data is stored in a PostgreSQL database that also runs on a shared Linode VPS. The apps interact with the database using Drizzle, an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for JavaScript. The entire infrastructure for both apps is managed with Terraform using the Terraform Linode provider, which was new to me, but made provisioning and destroying infrastructure really fast and easy (once I learned how it all worked).

For example, integrating Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) into the IDP can streamline updates and rollbacks.

In this project, you will understand and get hands on experience around the entire concept around CI/CD from applications perspective. To fully gain real expertise around this idea, it is best to see it in action across different programming languages and from the platform perspective too. From the application perspective, we will be focusing on PHP here; there are more projects ahead that are based on Java, Node.js, .Net and Python. By the time you start working on Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes projects, you will get to see the platform perspective of CI/CD in action.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an important part of any true hosting operation in the public cloud. Each of these platforms has their own IaC solution, e.g. AWS CloudFormation. But they also support popular open-source IaC tools like Pulumi or Terraform. A category of tools that also needs to be discussed is API gateways and other app-specific load balancers. There are applications for internal consumption, which can be called microservices if you have a lot of them. And often microservices use advanced networking options such as a service mesh instead of just the native private network offered by a VPC.

To quickly deploy the architecture, we will be using Terraform. With Terraform, we can automate the deployment process and have our infrastructure up and running in minutes.

Hi folks,

My company has an OpenAPI3 spec. We have a community supported Terraform provider that we are moving in-house soon.

I was wondering why there is no easy way to generate a Terraform provider from an OpenAPI spec?

There's no open issue in the generator project[0].

Some googling turned up a couple of projects[1],[2], but they only support Swagger; OpenAPI is the successor to Swagger. There is some progress on supporting OpenAPI[3]. I also found this provider, which is a thin wrapper around REST calls[4].

It's not discussed very much on the Terraform forum[5].

Either I'm missing the need for this or underestimating the difficulty.

0: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+terraform

1: https://www.logicmonitor.com/blog/how-to-write-a-custom-terraform-provider-automatically-with-openapi

2: https://github.com/dikhan/terraform-provider-openapi

3: https://github.com/dikhan/terraform-provider-openapi/pull/320

4: https://github.com/Mastercard/terraform-provider-restapi

5: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/sdk-provider-development-anyone-ever-used-code-generation-or-other-tools-to-simplify-their-provider-development/20301/2

Unless CloudFormation has some way to work with external systems? In my case I wasn't even using a built-in Terraform provider, but a REST API provider which calls our external service's API.

There is also Mastercard/Rest provider which IMHO results in a bit more natural HCL2 syntax.

I've used https://github.com/Mastercard/terraform-provider-restapi successfully with a cloud provider which provides a suitable HTTP API. There was a bit of fiddling with JSON formatting and their API docs, but it wasn't too hard all in all.

But like you say - now I've done that, I want to do it for every UI that I'm forced to log in to!